I have updated my blog with a few thoughts on representation and how, perhaps, certain good intentions have taken some wrong turns. Just as always you'll find the blog in the Words Section of the site.
I will be doing a concert for the First Lego League event in Odense November 24, bringing with me Olivia Obskur on extra vocals and synth, Alex Anarki on synth and Max Kaos on live hologram graphics. The concert is for the event guests only, and we hit the stage around 7:30 PM. The next day, November 25, I will also be DJ'ing as part of the event.
I will be doing a concert for our next Klub Golem event which is October 28, combined Halloween and seventeen years club anniversary. Danish ebm and industrial pioneer Leæther Strip will also perform this evening. I will be bringing Olivia Obskur on extra vocals and synth, Alex Anarki on synth, and Max Kaos as hologram VJ with me on stage for this concert plus lasers and light - and we also intend to celebrate a few fifty years anniversaries, planning a live rendition of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Opening Theme which was famously used in the Exorcist, the album and the movie originally both released in 1973. We hit the stage around 10:30 PM. Moreover, I will also do a DJ set together with Olivia Obskur from around 01 AM in the night. Other DJs this evening are Sue She and Lærke Lømmel.
Tickets are 50 kr. The address is Kulturmaskinen, Farvegården 7, main entrance, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
App. times; 8 PM to 2 AM.
During the Corona years when concert activity was limited I spent nights programming three graphical text adventure games for the Commodore 64 for which I also composed music which SidWave helped track for the 64; the main theme can be found in the Music Section of my website. The games are now released on the cover disk of classic Commodore 64 magazine, Zzap!64. This was the leading Commodore 64 mag in the eighties and now they're back. If you want to support them or buy issues you can do so right here. Monochrome Tales is a collection of three graphic adventure games for the Commodore 64. The games share an overall approach in style and design - a use of black and white graphics throughout hence the title - but with different stories that are not connected. The games were all programmed on an SX64 using the GAC tool, primarily at night. The games are Dream Loop, Space Punk and Eighties Quest. Dream Loop is a strange tale in black and white, referencing Edgar Allan Poe's famous notion of a dream within a dream. The player is lost in reveries and must explore the dream world, solving puzzles of an often dream-like and surreal character, navigating strange corridors, snowy landscapes and dark forests. Space Punk will let you tour the galaxies with your space punk band, Alien Anarchy and play The Dying Star Club on Neubauten Minor, Purple Meteor Club on Lydon 56 in the Vivienne System and abandoned space station, Hagen DDR. Travel from planet to planet in your battered old UFO van, operate cockpit computer HAL64 and avoid the Space Cops. Eighties Quest - Ah, teenage life in the eighties! Visit high school or stay at home and play your Commodore 64. Hang out with the local goth girl or visit the comics store. Where did you put that favourite Depeche Mode tape of yours and how to beat the Pac Man hi-score at the arcade? It is all, as the saying goes, in a day's work in the eighties.
I decided to do a music video for an older song of mine, Twice A Screen Removed. The song deals thematically with the melancholy of internet communication, of always being twice a screen removed, but also has a darker undertone of online stalker mentality. This was the angle I went with for the video which, in a strange way, is inspired by the Julien Temple-directed video for Dexys Midnight Runners' classic eighties hit, Come On Eileen, a song I always loved. Now, I know the video is meant to be all fun and I am in no way offended but let's face it, Kevin Rowland's character is being kind of a prick to Eileen with his persistent calls of 'Come on, Eileen.' This made me think of how, in rock and pop music, we have accepted, unquestioning, for years and years, this idea of male longing for female object of desire - with often very little thought of whether or not said female object of desire is actually the least bit interested. This is the main idea behind my Twice A Screen Removed video which is a slightly surreal depiction of screen-to-screen communication, walking around with screens in something which looks like a silent movie of the German expressionism era, a (not so?) subtle way of hinting at how certain thoughts and ideas within pop, rock and music video language are perhaps a tad dated by now. The video can be found in the Video Section on this site as well as on YouTube. The roles are played by Marie Makaber and yours truly.
Simon Staun covered our concerts as part of an article focusing on music during this year's HCA Festivals. You can read the item here. As it is a Danish newspaper all text is in Danish.
TV2Fyn did an interview with me in relation to our HCA Festivals concert series at Kulturmaskinen, Odense. The feature is in Danish and can be streamed here. The concerts are taking place these days and they are free, so do try to show up.
Danish music mag Gaffa brings an article on our upcoming concert series for the ten years anniversary of HCA Festivals. You can find the article right here. It is in Danish.
LGBTQ mag, Out & About, includes our concerts in their list of HCA Festivals recommendations. Here is a link to their list which is in Danish. Thanks for the mention.
Swedish music mag Zero Magazine brings an article on our HCA Festivals concert series next week. You can read the item here. It is in Swedish, however, if you do read Swedish the mag has lots of interesting articles and material to offer.
British web magazine Cold War Night Life features an article about our upcoming concert series for the HCA Festivals later this month. You can read the article right here. The magazine also has lots of other material worth delving into, so do take your time.
Seeing how one of my all-time music heroes turns 65 today, I have uploaded a live video of our encore from Klub Golem Halloween 2022. The event had Stranger Things theme so we chose to perform a rendition of the classic Kate Bush smash hit, Running Up That Hill, the song being famously featured in season four of the popular TV series. Olivia Obskur does the lead vocals on this one, Max Kaos provides live hologram graphics while Emmelie Eddike and myself handle synthesizers, me adding a bit of extra vocals as well. Claus Corona is responsible for the live sound. When watching the video and Obskur's wonderful performance you will be surprised to learn she actually had something like a panic attack on stage right before this song which I found fitting in an almost uncanny way given Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things is a song used as protection against a demonic entity who preys on people with a history of mental disorders. We may look confident up on stage but really it is a bit like walking a tightrope every time. So once again, thank you for attending the concerts out there. You can find the video on YouTube as well as in the Video Section of this site where you can also find the studio version of the song - which would be in the Music Section, of course.
I will be doing a series of four concerts as part of the HCA Festivals ten years anniversary, in Odense, August 24 and 25, presenting my HCA Suite live; musical interpretations of Hans Christian Andersen's darker tales: The Snow Queen, The Shadow, The Fir Tree, The Story Of A Mother, The Little Mermaid, and The Little Match Girl. The concerts take place at the venue Kulturmaskinen, and in collaboration with Klub Golem as well. I will be joined on stage by Olivia Obskur on extra vocals and synthesizer, Alex Anarki on synthesizer, and Max Kaos on hologram graphics. We also bring a multi-colour laser show, hologram screens with graphics prepared and updated specifically for the shows plus screens with illustrations made by Penelope Ramon. DJ SUe She will provide atmospheric music before, between and after the shows. Claus Corona will be handling the live sound. The concerts are free; however, those on August 24 are for schools/educations only. The August 25 concerts are free for all.
FREE entry. The address is Kulturmaskinen, Farvegården 7, main entrance, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
Times; August 24: 11:00 AM & 01:00 PM. August 25: 05:00 PM & 08:00 PM.
The live video of Historien om en moder, a musical rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's gothic fairytale, The Story Of A Mother, from HCA Festivals, Kulturmaskinen, Odense, 2019, has reached more than 50,000 views on YouTube. Thank you very much for watching - and should you feel like watching it again, or for the first time, you can find the video in the Video Section of my website and also on YouTube right here. Thanks of course also to the then live constellation of Mie Møgunge, Lærke Lømmel and Marie Makaber plus Claus Corona handling the live sound.
I will be doing two DJ sets for next Klub Golem event, July 01, from 10:00 PM to 10:30 PM and then again from 11:30 PM to midnight. Other DJs are Sue She, Olivia Obskur, Lærke Lømmel and Nik. The live act of the evening is Hamburg-based, Ghosts Of Dawn.
Tickets are 50 kr. The address is Kulturmaskinen, Farvegården 7, main entrance, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
App. times; 8 PM to 2 AM.
Local magazine Beboeren issue 46 features an interview with me about my music and connection to the local area of Odense where I happen to live. While the interview is all in Danish, writer Lise Lyng Falkenberg, who did the interview, also provided an extended version, in English, which can be found right here. Now, that is service. The photos were taken by Tea Falkenberg.
I have uploaded a live video of Grantræet from our concert series at HCA Festivals 2022, Kulturmaskinen, Odense, Denmark. The song is a musical rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's melancholic fairytale, The Fir Tree. Thanks to the onstage team of Obskur (extra vocals, synth), Eddike (synth) and Max Kaos (hologram graphics) as well as Claus Corona handling live sound. The video can be found in the Video Section of this site and also on YouTube right here. We will also be doing a concert series for the HCA Festivals this year in late August - more info to follow. For now you can read a little article on the project from HCA Festivals here. It is in Danish.
The live videos of Twice A Screen Removed and Ghost In The Machine filmed at our CoronaGolem Halloween concert 2020 have reached more than 25.000 views each on YouTube. Klub Golem was one of the few clubs of its kind that could host concert events during the Corona period. Thanks to musicians Olivia Obskur and Marie Makaber, to Claus Corona for the live sound, the venue Kulturmaskinen, the people who showed up for the concert and of course to you people out there watching the videos. You can find both videos in the Video Section of my website and also on YouTube right here and here.
TV2Fyn did an interview with yours truly and co-musician Olivia Obskur about Klub Golem, featuring footage from our latest event with Totenwald April 08 as well as earlier recordings. The feature is in Danish and can be streamed here.
Web magazine O-Twn features a small interview with yours truly about Klub Golem, focusing also on our next event April 08. You can read the interview right here. And it is all in Danish.
Once again I will be doing a DJ set for the next Klub Golem event, April 08, together with Olivia Obskur. Our set is from around 09:00 PM to 10:30 PM. Other DJs are Lærke Lømmel, Totem, Eric Evil and Ghost Girl. The live act of the evening is Berlin-based, Totenwald.
Tickets are 50 kr. The address is Kulturmaskinen, Farvegården 7, main entrance, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
App. times; 8 PM to 2 AM.
I will be doing a concert at Mariagerfjord Gymnasium in Hobro March 27. The concert is for the students and staff at roleplay school, Østerskov Efterskole. I will be bringing Obskur on extra vocals and synthesizer as well as Eddike on synthesizer and we hit stage around 8 PM.
I will be doing a DJ set for the next Klub Golem event, the first of 2023, February 25, together with Olivia Obskur. Our set is from around 09:00 PM to 10:30 PM. Other DJs are Sue She and Lærke Lømmel. The live act of the evening is Swedish synthpop trio, Machinista.
Tickets are 50 kr. The address is Kulturmaskinen, Farvegården 7, main entrance, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
App. times; 8 PM to 2 AM.
Danish music mag Gaffa brings an article on our concert at Københavns Spilfestival, Copenhagen Games Festival, tomorrow January 28. The concert is free and I will be bringing Eddike on synth and laser pedals, Obskur on extra vocals, synth and smoke machine. Copenhagen band Press Play On Tape will also perform a free concert the same evening and there is a keynote presentation by popular TV host Jakob Stegelmann as well. The Venue is Huset-KBH, our concert is at 9 PM, third floor. You can read the item here - it is in Danish.
I will be doing a free concert at Københavns Spilfestival, Copenhagen Games Festival, January 28, at venue Huset-KBH, MusikCaféen, third floor. There will be all kinds of games-related activities including a keynote by popular TV host Jakob Stegelmann as well as another concert by Danish Commodore 64 rock band, Press Play On Tape. I will be bringing Olivia Obskur on extra vocals, synthesizer and smoke machine and Emmelie Eddike on synthesizer and laser pedals. We hit stage around 9 PM.
FREE entry. The address is Huset-KBH, MusikCaféen, third floor, Rådhusstræde 13, 1466 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Times; 09:00 PM.